Nova Scotia Property Assessment History with GPS Coordinates

Property Valuation Services Corporation (PVSC) provides address, GPS coordinates, and five-year history of assessed and taxable assessed values for all property accounts in Nova Scotia. The dataset includes columns for civic address components, map coordinates, municipal unit, and assessment account number. Data is published via thedatazone.ca platform and was last updated in January 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between Taxable Assessed Value and property location using X Map Coordinate and Y Map Coordinate.
• Analyzing annual changes in Assessed Value and Taxable Assessed Value over the five-year Tax Year history for trend forecasting.
• Mapping property value distributions by Municipal Unit or Civic City Name for regional economic analysis.
• Linking individual property records via Assessment Account Number to external datasets for enriched demographic or market studies.

Strengths

• Contains a five-year history of assessments for all property accounts in a province.
• Includes precise geolocation data via X Map Coordinate and Y Map Coordinate columns.

Limitations

• The total number of rows (property accounts) is unknown, preventing sample size evaluation.
• Data is collected for internal mass appraisal, and PVSC warns its structure may not be fit for all third-party uses.
• The license terms are unspecified, creating uncertainty for commercial redistribution.

Provenance

Source

Property Valuation Services Corporation (PVSC) of Nova Scotia.

Collection Method

Collected and stored for internal mass appraisal functions.

Time Range

Covers the last five tax years (specific years not stated).

Freshness

Data was last updated in January 2026, indicating regular maintenance.

Geography

Covers all property accounts in Nova Scotia, Canada.